Testing Kits

Cella75 · 04-04-2006, 10:57 AM

I recently purchased my firsy Saltwater test kit named Red Sea and it seems to be giving me high readings on my nitrates and ammonia, but when I take the to the LFS they are much much lower almost zero. Is this not a good test kit? Any suggestions? I am trying to learn as possible being a newbie

Cais49er · 04-04-2006, 11:06 AM

I bought the Red Sea test kit in Oct. '05 and it always gave me readings that I had NH3/NH4 and NO2 . So last week i got another kit and it showed 0 for both. My LFS recommended the Red Sea kit to me but I realized it is not the 1 that they even use. I not sure but its almost gone and I'm not getting the Red Sea kit again.

wharyat · 04-04-2006, 01:17 PM

Salifert is considered the best on the market at the moment. Red Sea and others have problems with indicating overly high readings, when they are not there.

Reefyone · 04-05-2006, 09:44 PM

Once I saw how was done testing in LFS - Quick Dip Strips, 5 tests in one. When I had such testing kit, readings (of alkalinity, at least) were quite different from Hagen Alkalinity tests, and both of them - from Seachem kit.

Cella75 · 04-06-2006, 10:46 AM

I am not to keen on test strips period. I have used them on my pool and get very different readings than my chemical kit.

Twitterbait · 04-06-2006, 01:55 PM

The quick dip strips are really inacurrate. I have been using red sea without problems for a long time...

Loverotties · 04-06-2006, 08:51 PM

Buy Salifert! easy to read and acurate!

steph090887 · 04-19-2006, 12:34 PM

Did you have the Red Sea one that says Marine Lab with the 4 testing tubes and such...just wondering becasue i bought it and it rarely tells me that im at 0 for anything and ive been trying to figure out why the readings are so high in my tank and cant think of anything